Dave Whiteley asked how to let a normal user shut down a Debian box and in reply... On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Richard Harran wrote:
[snip: How to make CTRL-ALT-DEL do a shutdown for a normal user] > This works for me, but I don't use xdm, so I cannot comment on whether > it traps <ctrl><alt><del> or not. If it does then that is just another > reason why, IMHO, xdm is pants. CTRL-ALT-DEL does nothing in xdm. However you can do CTRL-ALT-F1 to switch to a text console and immediately do CTRL-ALT-DEL to shut down (assuning it is set up as Richard describes) . So someone in Dave's position (like me) can tell their non-root users to hold down CTRL and ALT and press DEL and F1 in succession. Alternatively you can install KDE and you will find that its login manager, kdm, has a little "shutdown the machine" menu. In either case, make sure they know to wait for the "power down" or "system halted" message before they hit the power off switch. HTH! Hugh ========================================================================== Hugh C. Pumphrey, Dept. of - | Tel. 0131-650-6026,Fax:0131-650-5780 Meteorology, Univ. of Edinburgh | Replace 0131 with +44-131 if outside U.K EDINBURGH EH9 3JZ, Scotland | Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======P=l=e=a=s=e==N=o=t=e==t=h=e==N=e=w==F=A=X==N=u=m=b=e=r==============
